Possibly, especially when we consider UEFA's own plans to have parachute qualification for big clubs who fail to qualify through the league table.
Yeah but the Football League weren't happy about the big boys splitting and the FA siding with them. It's swings and roundabouts.
Well I kind of see his point. The sooner the "noble big clubs" feck off out of football, the sooner football can reform and create structures that create a level playing field, negating the need for me to seize power and enact reform singlehandedly
How fine change is depends on what the media tell you is fine.
If you think the Premier League is dull as shit you should just pick a new sport. We went from a 2 team league 20 years ago to a league were there are up to 6 potential title challengers at the beginning of every season. Top 6/8 teams are usually tight, even if there is the odd breakaway league leader, European place competition is super tight. The only thing tighter is the regulation battles. And on any given day, any team can beat any team, you could have relegation fodder beating the champs, with ease, as likely as you are to see a top 4 team beat a relegation team. It's the greatest league in the world, maybe not even limited to football, I don't know any other sports leagues as exciting.
That's just the usual marketing hype but in reality... if City win it this year, it will be four out of the last five and there was one meaningful, actual title race in that period. Only Chelsea and Liverpool can realistically challenge them - and I'm being generous about Chelsea who haven't challenged for the title since 2017.
Is there? Since 17/18 City and/or Liverpool have been running up the type of stats that was used to put La Liga down when Barca/Real were doing similar and from 96 to 2013 it was (bar 04/05 when three had a shot) always United and one other when it came to who had a chance of winning the title (first Arsenal, then Chelsea, then City).
What league isn't like that? Every league, no matter how big it is or how small and insignificant, they all have a couple big teams that win everything and the rest of the teams. The difference in England is the size of that group at the top, and you are right City have cemented their dominance a bit more, but this season isn't finished, Pool could still win and that's 2 in a row for them. In the last decade there have been 5 different winners, what other league would match that? And I didn't even touch on the football, you pick any random game in England, 2 big teams, 2 small teams, 1 small vs 1 big and they are all as likely to be an excellent game. Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Netherlands, etc, top 2 or 3 teams play anyone else it's a formality, if a game doesn't involve them, it's like watching MLS.
Slightly outdated opinion here no? considering how good Serie A has been for games this season. I’d rather watch a Serie A game than an EPL game when we talk about the lesser teams.
If those leagues MLS level outside of top 2, then PL teams should go and buy players from the MLS instead of buying from Germany, France, Italy, Spain, etc or just sign PL proven players like Maguire, McTominay, and AWB.
The Telegraph reports that in a document authored in September by the remaining ESL members, it argues: 'Since within the EU a club cannot benefit from state aids from its own member state … why should it be allowed that the football market be disrupted, to the exclusive benefit of a few state-owned clubs, because of state aids coming from non-member states?'
An ESL where City and PSG were invited, despite their state backers?
They were invited, but their spending in the ESL would be seriously framed. It literally said in the press release that "In addition, the competition will be built on a sustainable financial foundation with all Founding Clubs signing up to a spending framework." The ESL is an american project, trying to look like the NBA. It doesn't make sense if it isn't between equivalent powers, and that's why there were rules on spending.
That makes sense, that their ultimate goal wasn't and isn't "fairness" as you and I see it, but a closed shop oligarchy.
After Leicester won the title I can't complain about PL as a competition.
Yeah, I feel like there is a bit of confusion going on
This is what I think to. It's so a team has to be more consistent through a season to win the CL.
Also I don’t think that any of the participants, despite any public or private threats, would be kicked out of their domestic leagues.
That's actually part of my problem with it
This!
ESL won't stop oil money.
Hilarious that anyone thinks that's the answer to football being ruined by money
I don't think it will solve anything but the PL needs a wake up call from somewhere.Hilarious that anyone thinks that's the answer to football being ruined by money
Why exactly the PL? Every (major) league in Europe is rotten, Bundesliga maybe with slightly better regulations but still with the same problems just on a lower scale.
The PL is the worst of the lot and the most detached from its fanbase. An ESL will affect all the leagues though and might just make them a bit more focused in serving the fans in order to keep them.
